The purpose of this project is to follow first-ever- acute stroke patients from onset, one, two and four years post stroke. All acute stroke patients will be treated in a stroke unit and the physiotherapy treatment will be according to Motor Relearning Programme principles with functional goals, environmental context and early mobilisation. When patients are discharged they will be block randomised and stratified according to gender and hemisphere lesion into two groups. Group 1 will be offered an intensive follow-up programme, which will run four times in the post-stroke year with a total amount of 80 hours of physiotherapy. The physiotherapy treatment will be focused on physical endurance, strength and balance.